50404: Ruling on the discharges that come out from the woman’s uterus

A girl noticed some thin discharge on her underwear but she had not felt it come out. Is it permissible for her to pray with her underwear on which this discharge has gotten? If it is not permissible, then does she have to repeat her wudoo’ and change her underwear?.

Praise be to Allaah.

The discussion on such discharges focuses on two issues:

1 – Is it taahir (pure) or naajis (impure)?

The view of Abu Haneefah and Ahmad, and one of the two views
narrated from al-Shaafa’i – which al-Nawawi classed as correct – is that it
is pure. This view was also favoured by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, who said in
al-Sharh al-Mumti’ (1/392):

If these discharges come
as the result of intimacy then they are pure, because they are not the waste
products of eating and drinking, thus they are not urine. The basic
principle is that there is no impurity unless there is evidence that
something is impure. Because a man is not obliged to wash his penis if he
has intercourse with his wife nor to wash his garment if anything gets onto
it; if it were impure then the maniy (sememn – which is pure) would become
impure (through contamination with these discharges).

See al-Majmoo’, 1/406; al-Mughni, 2/88

Based on this, she does not have to wash her underwear or
change them if these discharges get on them.

2 – Is wudoo’ invalidated as a result of these discharges or
not?

The view of most of the scholars is that this does invalidate
wudoo’.

This is the view favoured by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, who
said:

Anyone who attributes to
me the view that this does not invalidate wudoo’ is not correct. It seems
that he understood from my words that it is pure and does not invalidate
wudoo’.

Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen,
11/287

And he also said (11/285):

With regard to the belief of some women, that (these
discharges) do not invalidate wudoo’, I do not know of any basis for that
except the view of Ibn Hazm.

But, if a woman experiences this wetness constantly, then she
should do wudoo’ for every prayer after the time for the prayer begins, and
it will not matter if this wetness if discharged after that, even if that
happens whilst she is praying.

Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

If the wetness described happens continually, most of the
time, then every woman who experiences that must do wudoo’ for every prayer
when the time begins. This is similar to the case of a woman who suffers
from istihaadah (ongoing non-menstrual vaginal bleeding) or one who suffers
from urinary incontinence.

But if this wetness only happens sometimes, and is not
ongoing, then it comes under the same rulings as urine – when it happens it
invalidates purity, even during the prayer.